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Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000
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No later than 1 January 2012, and every five years thereafter, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the European Economic and Social Committee a report on the application of this Regulation on the basis of information supplied by the Member States. The report shall be accompanied if need be by proposals for adaptations.
With regard to a Member State in which two or more systems of law or sets of rules concerning matters governed by this Regulation apply in different territorial units:
any reference to habitual residence in that Member State shall refer to habitual residence in a territorial unit;
any reference to nationality, or in the case of the United Kingdom ‘domicile’, shall refer to the territorial unit designated by the law of that State;
any reference to the authority of a Member State shall refer to the authority of a territorial unit within that State which is concerned;
any reference to the rules of the requested Member State shall refer to the rules of the territorial unit in which jurisdiction, recognition or enforcement is invoked.
The Member States shall communicate to the Commission within three months following the entry into force of this Regulation:
the names, addresses and means of communication for the central authorities designated pursuant to Article 53;
the languages accepted for communications to central authorities pursuant to Article 57(2);
and
the languages accepted for the certificate concerning rights of access pursuant to Article 45(2).
The Member States shall communicate to the Commission any changes to this information.
The Commission shall make this information publicly available.
The Member States shall notify to the Commission the lists of courts and redress procedures referred to in Articles 21, 29, 33 and 34 and any amendments thereto.
The Commission shall update this information and make it publicly available through the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and any other appropriate means.
Any amendments to the standard forms in Annexes I to IV shall be adopted in accordance with the consultative procedure set out in Article 70(2).
1.The Commission shall be assisted by a committee (committee).
2.Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 3 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply.
3.The committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.
1.Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 shall be repealed as from the date of application of this Regulation.
2.Any reference to Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 shall be construed as a reference to this Regulation according to the comparative table in Annex V.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 2004.
The Regulation shall apply from 1 March 2005, with the exception of Articles 67, 68, 69 and 70, which shall apply from 1 August 2004.
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